Mickey Blue Eyes

REVIEW
Grant is as engaging and dapper as ever in this feather-lite comedy about Cockneys and mobsters. Grant plays Michael Felgate, the manager of a struggling New York auction house who's rushing into an engagement with the daughter, he soons finds out, of a notable mafiaso (Caan, smug as all get out). Tripplehorn plays the fiancée, who desperately wants to protect Michael from the ever-grasping clutches of her family. Complications ensue when the art world and the underworld collide, and Michael must pass himself off as a Kansas City mafioso named "Mickey Blue Eyes." The movie has fun with the notion of what happens when someone actually rejects an offer they shouldn't refuse, and gives some familiar gangster-movie faces the opportunity to toy with their own tough-guy personas. As with this year's other (funnier) mob comedy Analyze This, Mickey Blue Eyes maintains a comfortable tone, carefully balancing the comic touches with the necessary threat of violence and mob brutality at every turn. Nothing monumental here, but an innocuous romp played to the hilt by a likable cast.